2003-2004Freie Kunstschule Berlin (Serge Waha, Ute Wöllmann)
2005-2009Studied painting at the Berlin Academy of Painting
2009Completion of studies with public presentation (catalogue)
Master student of Ute Wöllmann
2009-2012Teaching position for painting, Academy of Painting Berlin
since 2010 freelance artist, lives and works in Berlin
since 2010Member of the Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam e.V.
2012-2013Member of the ROOT producers' gallery, Berlin
2013Represented in the collection of the Federal Foreign Office
Since 2015Member of the art association KUNST.RAUM.STEGLITZ.e.V.
2017Exhibition organisation (project management) for Open Call exhibition
„Kult im Wandel“, KUNST.RAUM.STEGLITZ.e.V. Berlin
2018-2019Represented by the online gallery New German Art
2023Member XANTHIPPE e.V. Berlin Women's Initiative
2024Member of the GEDOK Berlin
My painting is abstract and contains no narrative structure. At the centre is the range of my own emotions, which are shaped by my way of life, by conscious and unconscious experiences of daily life and in particular by experiences of nature. My inner pictorial landscapes are abstract snapshots that later materialise in colour and form. This creates pictorial spaces that are open to interpretation and reflection.
Colour is unmistakably the central theme of my painting. I utilise it with all its properties - its fleetingness or intensity - as a carrier of light and energy and as a mediator of emotions. For me, colour is a medium whose suggestive power creates pictorial worlds that lie beyond reality and yet evoke real sensations. It is about light and darkness, warmth and cold, depth, closeness, the present or the past - about associations of the most diverse kind, which the viewer can engage with.
I give a lot of space to chance in the work process. Forms of all kinds form, emerge, disappear again or solidify in the interplay of chance and control. The calculable meets the incalculable, order meets disorder, control meets the unpredictable. In the end, these movements and emotions of the working process are reflected in the work.
2025
„Archipelago of Friendly Utopias“, Inselgalerie Berlin
„NEUaufnahmen“, Gallery GEDOK Berlin
„Blickwinkel’25“, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam
2024
„KONVERGENZEN DIVERGENZEN“, Gallery CARLS ART 78, Eckernförde
„JAPAN ART FESTIVAL“ JEPAA Berlin, Charlottenburg Palace, Great Orangery
„ARTBOX.PROJECT Venezia 2.0“, BIENNALE ARTBOX EXPO 2024, Cipriarte Gallery
2023
INCorporating art fair, Hamburg
„VARIABLE X“, Inselgalerie Berlin
„Flowing Colours - Fluttering Flags“, foil installation, Atelierhof Werenzhain (E)
„Found pieces and found objects“, Galerie Salon Halit Art
„Focus on the expanse“, Inselgalerie Berlin (E)
2022
„Movement and stillness“, kunst am bahnhof bad saarow e.V., Bad Saarow (E)
„ART STEGLITZ 2022“, members' exhibition KUNST.RAUM.STEGLITZ.e.V.,
Primobuch Berlin (art space)
2021
„ART FESTIVAL 2021“ (JEPAA),
Japanese and German artists, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
„Fresh Legs“, Open Call, Inselgalerie Berlin / Galerie Heike Arndt
2020
„Kein Thema 4“, group exhibition, Kunsthaus Potsdam
2019
„The power of colour“, kunst am bahnhof e.V., Bad Saarow (E)
„KONTRASTE“, Gallery in the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus, Berlin (E)
„Kein Thema 3“, Kunstverein Kunsthaus Potsdam
2018
„Resistance | Discharge“, Primobuch Berlin (art space) (E)
„transformart“, Berlin Oberschöneweide art festival
„Kunstlicht“, art festival Gärtnerhof Velten
During her artistic development, Dörte Lützel-Walz has intensively explored the various aggregate states of liquid colour. This has always been the defining element of her colour compositions. She has consistently concentrated on the flow of colour and has dedicated herself entirely to the process of fluidity.
Material battles at the beginning of her studies, paper and fabric collages within the picture surface and the partial tearing off of these sections brought her very close to internationally renowned positions on the art market, such as Fred Thieler. However, Dörte Lützel-Walz has confidently worked her way out of the shadow of her artistic role model and developed her very own point of view.
Nothing in her paintings is left to chance. She knows exactly how liquid colour behaves: She consciously controls the direction and length of the flow, she knows the absorbency of the fabric, how wet colours run into each other and how the tenth glazing layer of paint remains on the layer below. In the colourful thicket of upward and downward running colour rivulets, she directs the inserts of the colour chords and the drumbeat of the thrown or sprayed paint. In this way, her entire colour instrumentarium ultimately develops the orchestral sound of the painting.
Neon-coloured auroras flash in the dark night blue, red rivulets diffuse into misty bright swathes of colour, black rivers of colour grow upwards like plant shoots in the direction of a green coloured light, waters of colour fling across the surface of the picture. Her paintings are reminiscent of heavy rain that washes out a weather glow. The viewer must also entrust himself to this flow of colour - and is rewarded with a unique visual experience.
Dörte Lützel-Walz has intensively explored all artistic forms within this segment of abstract painting. Her innovative point of view appears light and natural and yet is the result of years of hard and consistent work. I am therefore very proud to appoint Dörte Lützel-Walz as my fourth master student. I am sure that her paintings will attract attention and take their rightful place in the art market. I wish her luck and success.
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